Word: callers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Many times in recent weeks, in talking to callers, the President has listed all 1940 Democratic aspirants, then damned them all with faint praise. For example: To many a caller Franklin Roosevelt has indicated that Cordell Hull is completely acceptable to him as the best 1940 compromise. But he also expressed fears that Mr. Hull is too old, and too much of a worrier...
...Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States," said the caller slowly, "appear of my own volition before this Committee of the Senate to say that I, of my own knowledge, know that it is untrue that any of my family hold treasonable communication with the enemy." He went away. Speechless, the Committee adjourned...
...White House caller last week was San Antonio's Mayor Maury Maverick, whom the President's Son Elliott, now a Texas radio commentator, helped turn out of Congress last year. Mayor Maverick asked the President how the U. S. can stay out of World War II, observed that on the law of averages his own son Maury Jr., 18, might get killed if the U. S. became involved...
...President's caller-of-the-week was Ambassador to France Bill Bullitt, home for a week ostensibly to have a lame shoulder treated, more likely to prime the President against an anticipated September Crisis abroad. Secretary of State Hull last week held conferences on the Tientsin situation but took no action, issued no statements (see p. 21). > Ambassador Francisco Castillo Nájera called to thank the President for U. S. courtesies upon the death of Mexico's air ace, Francisco Sarabia (TIME, June 19). The President seized the opportunity to ask Mexico to speed up its settlement...
...country to which there is a Federal angle." In other words, observers cracked, Frank Murphy was going to catch crooks everywhere, while Tom Dewey jailed a few bad New Yorkers. Columnists Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner quoted Frank Murphy's good-&-great friend Franklin Roosevelt as telling a caller that before Frank Murphy got through Tom Dewey's achievements would begin to look like pretty small potatoes. Cherubic Columnists Alsop & Kintner also speculated on a New Deal "dream ticket" for 1940: Roosevelt & Murphy...